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Feb 8, 1980 · Being There: Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
- (78K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Hal Ashby
- 1980-02-08
A White Man's Chance is a 1919 American silent adventure film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Lillian Walker and Joseph J. Dowling.
Until his employer died, a simple-minded man named Chance had worked his entire life as a gardener in Washington, D.C., totally sheltered within house and garden, his only knowledge of the outside world coming from television. Out on the street, Chance is hit by the limousine of an influential businessman's wife, who takes him home as a guest.
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
- (51.3K)
- United Artists
- Hal Ashby
Feb 16, 2001 · Down to Earth: Directed by Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz. With Chris Rock, Regina King, Chazz Palminteri, Eugene Levy. After dying before his time, an aspiring black comic gets a second shot at life - by being placed in the body of a wealthy white businessman.
- (25K)
- Comedy, Fantasy
- Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
- 2001-02-16
[With other poor black seniors, watching Chance on TV] Louise: It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all.
Soon enough, Chance is accidentally struck by a limousine and his leg is injured. Its passenger, Eve Rand ( MacLaine ), happens to be the wife of elderly, dying financial titan Ben Rand (Douglas); and, since their mansion is now partially set up as a hospital, she invites Chance to recover there.
